To understand the full dimensions of the coming Republican landslide, one needs look no further than the Senate races around the country. Because the presidential race is obscured by the heat of the Republican primary, the scale of the coming upheaval is less evident in presidential polling. But a survey of the key Senate races suggests not just a GOP victory, but a total rout.

According to the usually very reliable polling by Scott Rasmussen, Republican candidates are currently leading their Democratic opponents in seven races for seats currently held by Democrats. (Florida, Missouri, Nebraska, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) A gain of seven seats would, of course, give the GOP 54 Senators.

In addition, there is one tie race  Virginia  and two races where Republicans are almost tied (New Mexico and Michigan).

On the other hand, Republicans are far ahead in their efforts to keep their seats in Texas and Arizona and somewhat ahead in Nevada.

In Massachusetts, the greatest vulnerability for the Republican incumbents, Scott Brown is nursing a lead over Warren. (The Maine race has yet to take shape).

Finally, the polling in Pennsylvania is not good for Casey nor is it good for Menendez in New Jersey.

Heres the race by race breakout:

Florida

Congressman Connie Mack, the likely challenger to Democratic Senator Bill Nelson currently leads by 43-36 according to Rasmussens poll of March 13, 2012. With Nelson so far under 50%, he is meat.

Nebraska With Ben Nelson out of the way, this seat is a foregone conclusion for the Republicans. Jon Bruning, the front-runner among Republican candidates, leads former Senator Bob Kerry by 55-33 in Rasmussens March 15, 2012 survey.

This is what we need if the RINO Newt Romney wins. If he does, then control of both houses of congresscritters will keep the socialist in the WH down. Maybe. That is our only hope. Because if Romney wins, he will go totally liberal and forget he ever called himself anything near a conservative.

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posted on 03/22/2012 5:48:08 PM PDT
by RetiredArmy
(God is watching America. He is judging America. He does not like what He is seeing.)

probably writing a book(let) about the upcoming ‘landslide’ as we speak. He has time to get it on the market and get thousands before the actual election. Probably will run off with Anne Colter and suck toes after the 2012 election.

*rolling eyes*

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posted on 03/22/2012 6:04:32 PM PDT
by Outlaw Woman
(The biggest Hate group in America is located in the White House, Congress & DOJ)

If BO wins (which I doubt) if we win the Senate maybe impeachment proceedings can start. He has mountains of corruption surrounding him and with his finger in the middle of it. Just hasn’t had time to all come out yet.

I dont see it happening if Mitt Romney heads the ticket . . . a Romney ticket will make things far more difficult.

We just need to reset everything, like previous election history is on an Etch A Sketch  you can kind of shake it up and we start all over again - and make the down-ticket elections our priority. We can't afford to lose interest and let the anti-American leftist keep the White House and have a friendly Congress. If we're guaranteed a choice between big government liberals, we have to get every conservative to the polls and elect the most constitution-loving, small government, conservative Congress possible. That way, either liberal will be limited in the damage he can do.

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posted on 03/22/2012 6:22:35 PM PDT
by Pollster1
(Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)

If I’ve learned one thing from the 2010 elections, it’s that polls this far out are not necessarily a harbinger for things to come. Remember how far down Harry Reid was about this time before the election? He was definitely on the way out, and looked what ended up happening. The campaigning hasn’t started for real in these races, and the Dems haven’t started their dirty tricks yet.

Unfortunately we have more RINO’s in the Senate than just one - McCain, Lindsey, Murkowski, Brown, Collins - to name just a few. Hopefully we will be able to elect a real Conservative to replace Kay Bailey so maybe Texas will have at least one Conservative Senator - Cornyn who is not up until 2014 certainly can’t be counted on!

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posted on 03/22/2012 7:18:43 PM PDT
by Grams A
(The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)

“If we’re guaranteed a choice between big government liberals, we have to get every conservative to the polls and elect the most constitution-loving, small government, conservative Congress possible. That way, either liberal will be limited in the damage he can do.”
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Hear, Hear! We should try our best to keep Romney from being the nominee—and we should not give up on our attempts to do that.
But if Romney is the nominee we should certainly get out and vote for him since, as undesirable as he may be, he is far superior to Obama. Everytime I see a FReeper post that if Romney’s the nominee, they’re staying home in November I get almost physically ill. NONE of us should be defeatist.

The possibilities of getting a Republican led Senate led by CONSERVATIVE Republicans are quite real and, in my opinion, LIKELY if we get the base out this fall. I think Morris is picking up on this.

We need to support the non-RINO/CINOS for nomination where that makes sense. Some of the important races are:

If we get the above TRUE CONSERVATIVES in the Senate, we’ll have gone a long way toward having the numbers needed to elect TRUE CONSERVATIVES to the post of Majority Leader. AND THE RINOS (AND THEIR MEDIA ALLIES) KNOW THIS.

In addition to the above races, there are a number of other important Senate races that could help insure that none of the Republican leaders in the Senate “go wobbly” on us.

This is where our efforts should go in 2012, folks, not pushing Willard Romney the open socialist.

Absolutely! No way will I vote for milt, but no way I will stay home either. I'll vote GOP down ticket and for Potus I will vote 3rd party/Indy if there any acceptable choices. If not I will just wright-in Palin.

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